Satiate vs Compensate - What's the difference?
satiate | compensate | Related terms |
To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
(ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally]] or ([[metaphor, metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
* Francis Bacon
* Prior
To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
As verbs the difference between satiate and compensate
is that satiate is to fill to satisfaction; to satisfy while compensate is to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.As an adjective satiate
is filled to satisfaction or to excess.satiate
English
Verb
(satiat)- Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.
Usage notes
Used interchangeably with, and more common than, sate.“Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog
Synonyms
* sateDerived terms
* satiatedReferences
External links
* * * ----compensate
English
Verb
(compensat)- It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
- His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
- To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
- The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
- The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
- I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.
- To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.
Derived terms
* compensation * compensatory * recompense * recompensateSynonyms
1. To pay * guerdon * reimburse to pay back 2. To make up for, correct, satisfy, or equalize, to balance the scales, to equalize or make even.
* equate
* offset
* redeem
* accord
* reconcile
* harmonize
* atone
* indemnify
* requite
* rectify
* level
* resolve
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* amend
* expiate
* redress
* remedy
* remunerate
* appease
* restitute and restitution
3. To adjust to a change.
* acclimatize and acclimate
* accommodate
* accustom
* adapt
* accord
* counterbalance
* counteract
* integrate
* attune